It seems that dbpedia is a de facto source of URIs for geographical place names. I would expect to find a more specialized source. I think that I saw one mentioned here in the last few months. Are there alternatives that are possible more fine-grained or designed specifically for geo data? With multi-lingual labels? Perhaps somebody has kept track of the options on a website?
-Scott -- M. Scott Marshall http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Sarven Capadisli <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 14:01 +0100, Sarven Capadisli wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 14:07 +0200, Karl Dubost wrote: >> > # Using RDFa (not implemented in browsers) >> > >> > >> > <ul xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"; id="places-rdfa"> >> > <li><span >> > about="http://www.dbpedia.org/resource/Montreal"; >> > geo:lat_long="45.5,-73.666667">Montréal</span>, Canada</li> >> > <li><span >> > about="http://www.dbpedia.org/resource/Paris"; >> > geo:lat_long="48.856578,2.351828">Paris</span>, France</li> >> > </ul> >> > >> > * Issue: Latitude and Longitude not separated >> > (have to parse them with regex in JS) >> > * Issue: xmlns with <!doctype html> >> > >> > >> > # Question >> > >> > On RDFa vocabulary, I would really like a solution with geo:lat and >> > geo:long, Ideas? >> >> Am I overlooking something obvious here? There is lat, long properties >> in wgs84 vocab. So, >> >> <span about="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Montreal";> >> <span property="geo:lat" >> content="45.5" >> datatype="xsd:float"></span> >> <span property="geo:lat" >> content="-73.666667" >> datatype="xsd:float"></span> >> Montreal >> </span> >> >> Tabbed for readability. You might need to get rid of whitespace. >> >> -Sarven > > Better yet: > > <li about="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Montreal";> > <span property="geo:lat" > ... > > > -Sarven
